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Secret Squirrels
‘Bad news Secret; your code-name has been leaked. We’re going to have to come up with some disinfo…’ Pressures of work have kept me away for a long time, but I’m hoping to get back to posting at...
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The gun that goes ‘PING’ didn’t get soldiers killed. But they thought it might…
The clip ejecting from an M-1 Garand rifle in a period photograph (my title is a Monty Python reference…) One of the most persistent firearm myths out there is that American soldiers fighting in...
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Spanish Civil War Bollocks
No, not this Spanish Civil War bollocks. Although this is very likely also bollocks… I recently came across an odd claim in the comments section for a YouTube video (yes, yes, I know) on the subject...
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I have more posts in the pipeline, but as this is something I wanted to cover, but then found a Reddit thread that nailed it, I’m just going to link to it. I remember thinking that the beach was far...
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Pull Your Finger Out of What, Exactly?
Good luck sticking anything in this… Credit: shutterstock.com Oh, this is a classic. I can hardly believe that I’ve never heard it before; the amazing BS claim, made by the so-called ‘History...
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Rifle musket or rifled musket?
A Rifled musket. Also a rifle musket. And a rifle. Tl;dr – ‘Rifle’ = short for ‘rifled gun’ ‘Rifled gun’ = any firearm with rifling ‘Rifled musket’ OR ‘rifle musket’ = any musket with rifling...
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First World War Horse Tribute?
650 officers and enlisted men of Auxiliary Remount Depot No. 326, Camp Cody, N.M., in a symbolic head pose of “The Devil” saddle horse ridden by Maj. Frank G. Brewer, remount commander (U.S. Library...
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The Disappearing Norfolks
The 1999 BBC TV movie about this incident. No UFOs here, but claims of Turkish war crimes. Another military myth has come to my attention, and I’m not sure how I’ve never heard of it before....
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Did the British call American riflemen the “most fatal widow and orphan...
I’ve just come across this cool piece of art on Facebook (I like the use of the memento mori as used on period headstones) with the following Revolutionary War quote above it; “…the shirt-tail men,...
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Werewolves of Kyiv?
The flag version of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces cap badge (Wikimedia) In 2019 Ukraine’s Special Operations Command officially adopted a new unit patch featuring the head of a wolf with two...
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